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My first attempt at mailing. Most rings 3/8's, 14 gauge galvanized steel. Expanding ring top to "straight" brow and sides. Face closes straight for about 9 rows from chin down, then expands back out...

The second suit that I ever created, and my third project, a coif/mantle combo. Both are matching 14 g. 3/8 ID wire, galvy and copper, simple 4-1 weave. Coif and mantle are expanding cirtcle weave.
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Plate Mail Pauldrons... made with real tie rod ends. Basically I scrounge around residential contruction sites for these things (not to worry, once the basement is finished pouring n' solidifying thes...

This is a bishopsmantle that I have made using the mantle in german national museum, nuremberg and one from the royal armouries, Leeds as a guide. I am using 1.6mm mild steel for the 8mm rings and als...

A scanned image of a Dragonscale shoulder piece I've made out of 2mm Galvy.
// I used 16mm and 10mm rings. Made two triangles and connected the sloping sides of both triangles with euro 4-1.
// Atta...

Ok so this is my first riveted maille project, an avential. Made with 16ga steel, 9mm ID(before flattening anyway)4500 rings approx. It took 7 months to complete, it was started at the start of 2007. ...

This is my second coif. It is E4-1 with 17 gauge galvanized steel and 1/4" inner diameter rings. I wanted it to be nicer than my first coif, so I made the mantle bigger and added some copper rings a...

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